Paula S. Fass

1977 examination of America and American youth in the 1920’s.

“… it is about a fascinating period in American history.  It explains it far more profoundly than we are accustomed to having it done. For another thing, it is satisfying as an intellectual exercise. And most pertinently the book is deeply relevant to contemporary American culture. Anyone who has attended college in the decades succeeding the 20s will recognize with a strong sense of immediacy, and perhaps even nostalgia, the cultural phenomena professor Fass describes.”

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

American Youth in The 1920s

Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.

The Damned and the Beautiful

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John Jakes

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Best-selling author ofThe Kent Family  Chroniclesand the three-volume Civil War  epicNorth And South, John  Jakes is one of America's favorite historical  novelists. But Jakes is also a master of Frontier fiction.  Here, for the first time in one volume, are eleven  of his finest stories of the American West and the  brave men and women who tamed it. You'll meet a  sheriff who faces a hardened killer in the strangest  gunfight in frontier history; a resourceful woman  who saves a rebel from a bitter life on the owl  hoot trail; a ruthless gunman who meets his match  in a three-year-old-girl; and a immigrant who  battles fear and prejudice in a frightened California  town. You'll also meet card sharks, railroaders,  posses, and medicine men as Jakes recaptures the  humor, violence, and adventure of the great American  frontier. Includes the brand-new, never  before-published story,Carolina Warpath,  and an essay,The Western; and  How We Got It.

The Big Country

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Editors of Bead&Button Magazine

Over 50 jewelry projects that require only basic skills and a small amount of time. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Fast and Fun Jewelry Projects 

The 56 projects in this third volume in the series are simple and stunning, and most can be completed within a few hours. They cover a variety of accessories from necklaces and bracelets to earrings and rings. A color photograph of the finished piece and a quick intro for inspiration precede the step-by-step instructions. The editors include a section of basics to get novices started. Individual projects include a luxurious scarf necklace, a multistrand twist bracelet, turning wheel earrings, and a lovely silver cascade jewelry set.

Chic and Easy Beading Vol. 3

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1943 anthology of stories about dogs, with bonus color poster, dog map of the world. Introduction by James Thurber. Overall excellent condition, except for crack at interior front cover.

37 stories by different authors, including Jack London, Booth Tarkington, James Thurber, E.B. White, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

with Color Poster

The Fireside Book of Dog Stories

1980 reprint of 1942 original. With an afterword by John Updike. 

From Wikipedia:

Memoirs of Hecate County is a work of fiction by Edmund Wilson, first published in 1946, but banned in the state of New York until 1959, when it was reissued with minor revisions by the author.

The book includes six short stories, three of which had been previously published. The link between the six stories is the narrator, an "upper-middle-class intellectual", describing dysfunctional American society through sexual liaisons and friendships.

[The ban] went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948, where the decision was upheld 4–4. 

From the afterword by John Updike:
“Remains a work of exemplary merit, still the most intelligent attempt by an American male to dramatize sexual behavior as a function of, rather than a suspension of, personality.”


Memoirs of Hecate County

First Edition of 1946 profile of Frank Sinatra written as “Sinatra-mania” swept the nation. Includes photographs.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Story of an American Phenomenon, Frank Sinatra

The Voice

History of the Pennsylvania Railroad published in 1947. About 330 historical photos. 

The Pennsylvania Railroad, A Pictorial History 

Dust jacket is in poor condition; book itself is in excellent condition. 
From Wikipedia: 1963 novel influenced by the heightened atmosphere of the Cold War, with its escalating series of international crises in the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as the U-2 incident; West Berlin; unrest in Hungary, Indochina, Congo, and Latin America; and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The novel exploits contemporary fascination with the under-the-ice exploits of such American nuclear-powered submarines as Nautilus (first to pass under the North Pole), Skate, Sargo and Seadragon. MacLean may have been anticipating the excitement of his British readers regarding the upcoming commissioning of HMS Dreadnought, the Royal Navy's first nuclear submarine. Also, MacLean may have been influenced by press reports about the nuclear-powered submarine USS Skate visiting Ice Station Alpha, located on Ice Island T-3 in the Arctic, on 14 August 1958, as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY). At the time that the novel was published, under-the-ice operations by US Navy nuclear-powered submarines were prohibited until SUBSAFE measures had been implemented following the loss of USS Thresher.
Ice Station Zebra also uses the accelerating Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union as the backdrop for the novel, and may have been directly inspired by news accounts from 17 April 1959, about a missing experimental Corona satellite capsule (Discoverer 2) that inadvertently landed near Spitzbergen on 13 April and may have been recovered by Soviet agents.[4][5]In 2006 the National Reconnaissance Officedeclassified information stating that "an individual formerly possessing CORONA access was the technical adviser to the movie" and admitted "the resemblance of the loss of the DISCOVERER II capsule, and its probable recovery by the Soviets" on Spitsbergen Island, to the book by Alistair MacLean.[2]
The story has parallels with CIA Operation Cold Feet, which took place in May/June 1962. In this operation, two American officers parachuted from a CIA-operated Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress to an abandoned Soviet ice station. After searching the station, they were picked up three days later by the B-17 using the Fulton Sky hooksystem.


Ice Station Zebra

1983 memoir by John Wayne’s girlfriend during the last years of his life. Includes various photographs of Wayne in color and in black and white.

An Intimate Memoir of John Wayne’s Last Years

Duke, A Love Story

1971 reprint of 1881 reissue
The first compilation of terms and illustrations ever published in the USA to show exactly what freight and passenger cars in current use looked like and how they were constructed. Eighty four pages of contemporary advertisements in the back of the book, which helped to finance the original printing, give an even fuller impression of railroading as it existed in the 1870’s.



An illustrated vocabulary of terms which designate American railroad cars, their parts and attachments 

The Car Builder’s Dictionary (1879)

This 1978 pre and post apocalyptic novel written in the height of the Cold War is a unique creation, both witty and horrifying.

Not only are Kalki and his chronicler, Teddy, among Vidal’s most memorable literary inventions, but the sense of a dying world is here rendered with a hallucinatory skill that recalls 1984 and Brave New World.

Excellent condition.
First Edition?

Kalki

1954 book about ants written by John Crompton, who wrote books about nature “by the layman for the layman.”

Ways of the Ant

This 1962 first novel of Romanian screenwriter Titus Popovici is set in Romania and Transylvania in 1944 in the climatic period of World War II. The protagonist Andrei Sabin is a high school student disillusioned with the war and the fascist government.

The author depicts the evolution of a young, honest intellectual who, after much wavering joins the patriots in their struggle for the freedom of the Romanian people, and who participates in setting up the free society following the war.

The Stranger

First Edition of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume II, 1970. Interior in like new condition. Cover in excellent condition. Dust jacket in fair condition.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume II

3 Volumes from series McCall Collection of Modern Art. Audubon, Homer, Whistler and 19th Century America; Modern French Masters, The Impressionists; Cezanne and the Post-Impressionists. Many full color photos of artworks.

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

19th Century America, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists 

McCall Collection of Modern Art, 3 Volumes

Larry McMurtry

A novel set in the American Ild West by Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning writer Larry McMurtry 
Some minor dents on top edge, otherwise excellent condition 

Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Telegraph Days

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January 1966, February 1966, March 1966, December 1969, February 1969
James Bond’s Weird World of Inventions; Why I Believe in Flying Saucers; Comparing Ford-Chevy-Plymouth Wagons; New Revolver Like Steam Engine; Smothers Brothers - Crazy for Wheels; Citroen Mehari - France’s Answer to the Dune Buggy; BMW 2002 - Supercar, Bavarian Style; Across the Atlantic in a 20 foot Open Boat; How We Film Under the Sea by Jacques Cousteau; Huston - New Miracle Plastic with a Myriad of Uses; Corvette-Powered Family Car from Italy; Three Luxury Cars with Modest Price Tags; What You Should Know About Anti-Smog Devices; How Smart Can Home Appliances Get

Popular Science (bundle of 5)

September 1957, December 1958, May 1961, November 1962, May 1965
The New Edsel, Mercury & Lincoln; 6 Ways to Sharpen Your Memory; Science Probes Monkey Mother Love; All About the Luxury Loaded Edsel; Are We Safe Against Russian Subs?; Missile Gets a Supersonic Boost; Architect’s House Uses No Wood; Beating Russia’s Big Rockets; How a Coffee Machine Works; U.S. Cavemen 10,000 Years Ago; Instant Orange Juice; Jet Pack for Astronauts; Mustang- A V-4 for Fun; Pleated Roof for Indoor Stadium; What’s New in Electronics; Copter Beats Path Through Fire 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

1959 New Car Edition, also includes: Those Amazing Fluorocarbons, Babies to Order?, All-in-One Mobile Home, New Gun Takes Plastic Bullets, How to Cut Patterns in Hardboard, [Making a] Coffee Table in Modern Free Form, vintage ads, etc.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Annual New Car Section

Popular Science Magazine, January 1959

1954 Auto Show Edition also includes: Conveyor Belts to Carry People, How Color TV Works, How the Missing Link was Found, Young Californian’s Prize House, Now Anyone Can Build with Pipe, New Tricks for Building Walls, vintage ads, etc.

1954 Auto Show Edition

Popular Science Magazine February 1954

1955 Auto Show edition, also contains: “Rocket Car to Hurl Man Over Cliff,Church Design Goes Modern, Building Modern Home Accessories, Tips on Shooting Basketball Photos, A Drawing Board in the Modern Mode, Tractor Replaces the Sled Dog, vintage ads, etc.
* half of one page cut out


1955 Auto Show Edition

Popular Science Magazine, December 1954

Issue includes 1957 auto buying guide, “facts and figures on all 1957 models,” “Our Push Button A-Bomb is Ready,” “Will Bomb Dust Endanger Your Health,” “Rear View TV Gives Car Hindsight,” “Seven Tips on Making Cabinets,” vintage ads, etc. 

Car Buying Guide

Popular Science Magazine, February 1957

Daniel Howarth

Featuring children's own words and heart-warming pictures, this board book, this is the perfect book for children to share with Grandma!

Why I Love My Grandma

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David Cruise

Alison Griffiths

An epic novel that tells the history of Vancouver through the lives of a series of characters, beginning with in the last Ice Age. Signed by author David Cruise. 

A Novel

Vancouver is a startlingly beautiful city of dreams and desires. Its mountains, rivers, ocean, and islands are arresting to the eye and exciting to the soul. The long and varied human history of this magical place is irresistibly grand and eventful. Vancouver -- the city, the land -- has al-ways been a place of appetites, of licenses offered and liberties taken. Since the time the humans crossed the Bering Strait and journeyed down the Pacific Coast seeking a fabled land of plenty, Vancouver, caught between soaring mountains and a vast ocean, has been a destiny for the spirit. Beginning in the dying era of the last Ice Age, Vancouver unfolds with the story of Tooke, the last survivor of a Siberian people and ancestor to the first nations of Vancouver. Moving through history in a rich, ever-expanding tapestry, Vancouver reveals a fascinating cast of characters. Long before recorded history, a young girl faces the terrifying prospect of marriage into a faraway tribe. Hundreds of years later, a Georgian cartographer aboard a Spanish exploration fleet nearly meets his end at the hands of her descendants. In the passing of the next centuries, a Scottish trapper becomes the reluctant leader of a fur-trading outpost on Vancouver's shores, and a Chinese peasant boy seeks an elusive fortune. The burgeoning colony of Vancouver lures a turn-of-the-century British adventurer and a German noble. In modern times, a superstar singer and film actress meets her destiny in the form of a young native girl struggling to free herself from the city's impoverished downtown eastside. The characters of Vancouver are all vastly different, yet they all share something -- a powerful attraction to a grand and giving land. Their stories intertwine, touching the extremes of human experience: riches, bravery, betrayal, crime, passion, and forbidden love.

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